One of my favorite museums is The Ringling Museum of Art in Florida. This photo shows one of the fountains in the museum's central courtyard, which displays recreations of notable statues from the Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods. #MythologyMonday
More photos taken around the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, featuring the hallway, spiraling staircase, a model of a carousel, statue of Abraham Lincoln, an early 20th Century car, post office, and my favorite area: A reconstruction of the Myer Bros. Jewelry Store (1914-1974) which I believe is still the original cabinets, along with some photos of some wares. Shot in June 2023.
Gave 2 more of our small, cute #Buddha#statues a Spring makeover. All were plain gray cement before we painted them gold. They look much better - golden! One in each #succulents planters😊 Sitting on our front porch steps.
Si vous vous promenez en Bretagne et que votre passion est de prendre en photo les statues de saints, vous pouvez aider ma masterante dans ses recherches !
An observation for International Women's Day: There are more sculptures of mermaids on Glasgow buildings than there are statues of real Scottish Women in the city. There are also more statues of elephants, beehives, cherubs operating printing presses and Ellen Douglas, the fictitious heroine Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake.
I took this in the winter of 2019 when I was visiting Bath. Once the site of one of the great religious spas of the ancient world; the people of Roman Britain came to the site to worship the goddess Sulis Minerva and bathe in the waters of the natural thermal springs, which still flow with hot water today.
It's often said that Glasgow has at least five statues of Liberty, but good as this sounds when you dig deeper, it turns out to be an urban myth.
Glasgow does have a lot of female figures clothed classical dress and holding a flaming torch aloft, but that does not automatically make them statues of Liberty.
For example, the one on top of the People's Palace shown on the left here, looks like Liberty but is in fact a personification of Progress.
Similarly, the one on the front of the City Chambers is actually, according to the sculptor who created it, "Truth, holding up the light of liberty".
In fact, the only true statue of Liberty in Glasgow, shown on the right here, is on a tenement in Queen's Park, which dates from 1886, making it the same age as the more famous, and much larger, version in New York.
There are as many statues in Glasgow of Ellen Douglas, the fictitious heroine of Sir Walter Scott's poem the Lady of the Lake (top two photos), as there are of real Scottish women (bottom two photos).
We have statues of Mary Barbour (lower left) and Isabella Elder (lower right), but where are the statues of Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Somerville (scientist), Maggie McIver (Queen of the Barras), Winnie Drinkwater (first female commercial pilot), Margaret MacDonald MacKintosh (artist), Kate Cranston (business woman and enterpreneur), Rose Reilly (the only Scottish footballer to win a world cup) and Ethel MacDonald (hero of the Spanish Civil War), just to mention a few.
"Rainbringer" and "Rainbringer (Alternate Version)"
Another set of photographs from the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill taken in 2015. I have not published these for sale as they depict a fountain that I did not build myself and fall into grey areas of copyright law.
Da steht sie wieder, die Statue die der Hund und ich gern am Sonntagmorgen besuchen. Heute leicht angezuckert und irgendwie rührt es mich wie sie da so alleine steht. #silentsunday#photography#statues